Thanksgiving, a holiday deeply rooted in American culture, is celebrated in accordance with the applicable tradition and rituals. Closely related to the tradition of first immigrants, Thanksgiving does not undergo any fashions and fluctuations. Thanksgiving Turkey has to be big ( 19 lbs) to feed 20 people and to provide much more food than during the regular meal (Friends). Thanksgiving dinner without turkey and typical dishes does not exist, like “4th July with no pie”(Friends). By consuming and celebrating food, people show their appreciation for all they achieved due to their social and national affiliation.…
The Two Sides of War: The Character Contrast Between Finny and Brinker The Second World War lay heavy on the shoulders of many young men during the war. John Knowles’s characters, Phineas and Brinker, in the novel A Separate Peace, are no exception despite being the leaders of the group of boys at the Devon School. That being said, Phineas and Brinker’s similarities lie there, the two are used as foils in terms of leadership style to highlight the different approaches to dealing with the oncoming realities of war. Phineas and Brinker establish their power in opposite methods to demonstrate the different ways of facing the war. While Brinker is authoritative in his first lines of the novel, from the moment Phineas is introduced to the reader,…
Thomas Jefferson’s numerous accomplishments had profound effects on the history of the United States. Most of his actions positively affected the course of the nation, while some had a negative impact. His influence at a crucial historical time helped start the country towards where it is today. One of Jefferson’s most important contributions was his authorship of the Declaration of Independence. By outlining John Locke’s Theory of Natural Rights and logically laying out the case against King George for violating them, he provided the international community with a justification for the Revolution.…
Legacy: The Seed in a Garden “There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.” (Hamilton). Known as a bastard orphan, Hamilton was born and raised on an island named Nevis in the British West Indies on January 11, 1757. With a mother who died, father who vanished, and a cousin who had committed suicide, Hamilton was left alone. At the age of 14, he started working for a trading charter which imported and exported goods to and from America.…
Many unforgettable events from the past influenced society as we know it today. Many people such as John Locke, Charles de Montesquieu, and Voltaire; François-Marie Arouet, were all philosophers in their time. They all came from the period in time known as the Enlightenment. American society is the way that it is today because of the ideas of philosophers from the Enlightenment. Locke and Montesquieu both contributed by influencing ideas for American society today.…
On Wednesday, February 1, 2006, an 18 year old boy, Jacob Robida, entered Puzzles, a gay night club, in New Bedford, Massachusetts and performed an act of violence inside the club. Puzzles: When Hate Came to Town, is a documentary that walks us through that night and the days after, Jacob entered Puzzles night club and performed a hate crime, injuring 3 victims. In the documentary you hear the victims’ recollection of that night and also here Jacob’s friends describe his character. In the documentary, Jacob is described by his friends as a Nazi, racist, Caucasian, teenage male.…
What are “War Pigs”? As characterized in Black Sabbath’s War Pigs, War Pigs are politicians who initiate war expecting wealth in return. In War Pigs, the speaker is Black Sabbath. They are witnessing and observing the horrors of war. Black Sabbath’s intended audience is the common man, lower and middle class citizens.…
Canada played a role in the Vietnam conflict as a member of the International Control Commission, they also had a significant contribution of war materials to the United States. The Prime Minister of Canada publicly maintained that he was against the war, but some of his actions suggest that pressure from Washington was affecting his decisions. While some took to the streets in protest, Canada took thousands of draft resistors into the country and thousands of Canadians volunteered to fight with the US military. Upon researching the public opinion during the war it is apparent that; the public opinion of Canadians during the Vietnam conflict was divided across a vast spectrum of opinion and interest and to draw a generalized linear conclusion…
Thomas Jefferson's views on race and republic were astounding to say the least; he saw that in order to have a “true” republic of the United States, the people must be united themselves, in-terms of having a homogeneous population that spoke the same language and were governed by similar laws. Jefferson believed that blacks should be colonized and the Indians become assimilated into American culture. According to historian Ronald Takaki, Jefferson’s views of separate races were strongly influenced by his vision of having an American society that was truly united through uniformity. Takaki states, “President Jefferson looked forward to when the American continent would be covered with ‘a people speaking the same language, governed in similar…
Gorgias believed that to persuade someone is to deceive them and that language played a key roll in that deception. Using certain words draws emotional and sometimes physical reactions from listeners, which can either turn them off to your topic or draw them in. In Black People Tend Not to Understand Propaganda (2014), Johnson uses inflammatory language and historical atrocities to evoke the reaction he wants from his audience. This language comes in the form of his own words and the words written on the historical documents. Spoken words like extermination, military strategy, oppress, and Nazi Germany all creates an image in the viewer’s mind of how the past reflects the future.…
Confederate Statues: A Blot on Our History For many people nowadays, it is safe to say our society is now a landscape of political correctness and newfound controversies. The growing discussion about Confederate statues and the history behind them is a great example of this, and it has a lot to do with how people perceive America and its history today. Personally, I feel America has greatly changed since these controversial figures were alive and breathing, prompting me to feel strongly about why these statues don’t belong in today’s America. Despite what politicians support or how they think people opposed to the statues being taken down are “decent”, our current society has a varied opinion and interpretation of what these statues mean to different people.…
It is easy to believe that attaining peace in this world where violence and wars are so apparent is getting much harder. Perhaps to the point in which it is verging on the impossible. ‘Eve of Destruction’ expresses a strong but heartfelt warning towards how our hypocrisy as a society is edging us closer to our own demise . The writer, P.F Slogan, addresses both the solider and society singing about being on the ‘eve of destruction’. He wrote, “You’re old enough to kill but not for voting”, “you don’t believe in war, then what’s that gun your totin.”…
Sydney McMurray Mrs. Mihalik Honors English 9 1 December 2017 “Fight The Power” Seventy percent of the world’s population is made up of people of ethnicity. Caucasians are a minority when compared to the rest of the world. So why is it that groups of people speak out about “white supremacy”? The color of a person’s skin creates a fantastical division of power.…
How did the muckrakers impact business and politics during the progressive era? Muckrakers were journalists whose goals were to expose corruption within businesses and to expose political leaders. There were significant muckrakers this time who gained fame for exposing corruption within our capitalist society and exposing the truth about how the government was running the United States of America. Muckrakers were also seen to be very outspoken and were often accused of disrupting the peace within society because exposing truths was a form of rebellion. Although there are different perspectives on how the muckrakers impacted society, it cannot be denied that they influenced how different ideas were seen and evaluated because exposing the truths…
The music of the younger generation always seems to strike fear into the hearts of the older generation. One only has to think of the beginnings of Rock and Roll and how the older crowd predicted youthful promiscuity, violence and anarchy. It’s easy to see why the idea of censoring music came about and how that idea still plays out in the music of today’s youth. One only has to listen to certain songs on the radio today to find that the “bleep” of censorship is still in fashion. Oddly enough however, when one searches “songs about censorship” on the internet, one finds that there is far more information about songs that have been censored than there is about songs dealing with censorship.…